The Sun. — London, England, 1864-01-08 00:00:00

LIURNITURE, CARPETS, REDDING, and F LOORCLOT 11, CA RRIAG E-FRE E to any house in the kinzdom, retrardless of amount or die:lnce. First class goirls at second-class prices. Terms peculiarly liberal to Clergymen and Gentlemen. An immense stock to select from, displayed in Showrcoms occupying an acre of ground. Every article warranted CLE r:GYNIEN and GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR NISH are respectfully informed that Messrs. Cobbett and Co. are publishing an entirely New Edition of their un equalled HOUSE FURNISHING GUIDE, ill:'strated by4lo admirable enffravinzs of every description of Furniture and Bedsteads, with prices attached. A copy sent gratis and Post-free on application. This costly work also contains complete estimates for furnishing on the following revised scale : A Six-roomed Parsonage X74 3 0 An Eight-roomed ditto A Ten-ro:nnen ditto A Twelve -roomed d:tto To, , ,eller with a eri-e List of purified Bedding, and a mass of valuable informationto all requiring honseh 31d furniture, carpets' or bedding. Ref erences ki n dl y perm it te d t o Clerey men and gentl men in or near Great Malvern, Southampton, Chichester, Bury, Ely, Preston, G r i ms by, Ryde, Plymouth, Wells, Oxford, Brighton, Gainsborow_rh, Margate. Kidder taitister, Wellin g t on , C roy d on , Cambridge, Staines, Dorking', St. Alban's, 'Worcester, Ipswich, Peterborough, St. David's, Wrexham, and above 500 other places in all parts of Great Britain. COB BETT and CO., General House Furnishers, Deptford bridge, London, S.E, ,RITISH NATION FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, Limited. Ineorporated under "The Companies Act, ISti2," with Limited Liability, whereby the responsibility of each shareholder is strictly limited to the amount of his share.; CAPI Shares of £2O each. First Issue £25,000 Shares. £1 per share to be paid on Application, £2 per share on Allotment, and £2 at an interval of not less than three months. These Deposits, amounting to £5 per share, will yield X21a,000 of raid-up Capital, w hi c h th e Di rec tor s feel con fident will be amply sufficient to establish and consolidate the Company. In the event of no allotment being made, the deposit money will be returned without any deduction. The Hon. DIRECTORS. on. ELIOT YORKE, M.P., 124, Park-street, lane, Dire c t or Di rector of the National Provincial Bank of England, Chairman, Geo. Frederick Anderson, Esq., 14, Notting hanl-place, ork-crate Regent's-park. tieorge Bermingham, Moreron-villas, Kentish Town Chairman of the British Nation Life As . surance Association. Wa m Clarke Esq., 193, Adelaide-road, Hampitead. Hen ry Deffell, Esq 21. Mincing-lane, Direc- J tor of th e Chartered Gas Company. Jo nes Purnell, E sq ., Kendall-place. Brixton. ohn Geary, Esq., Hyde-side, Edmonton, Dan i rector of the Metropolitan and Provincial Bk. Robert Wallen Jones. Esq., 7, Ormonde terrue, North-gate, Regent's-park. Robert Norton, Esq., M.D., 4, Westbottrne grove, West, Bayswater. George Charles Richardson, Esq 16, Abbey place,fi St. John's-wood. ""anMel Smith, Esq., Beulah-dale, South :Tor- Wood John I homps la. Esq., Bradfleld-villa, Grove end-road, St. John's-wood, Director of the Perpetu a l Land Company. Also Directors of the ,British Nation Life Assurance Association. With power to add to their number. lIANKERS. The Eank of' London, Threadneedle-street ; and 450, West Strand, London. The National Provincial Bank of England; at its Branches throughout the country. BROKERS. Messrs. Huggins and Rowse'', 1, Threadneedle-street. John Be AUDITORS. rry. Esq., 1, New Broad-street, City. Henry Chatter's. Esq., Public Accountant, 51, Lothbury. George Locket, Esq., Rosslyn-park, Hampstead. Messrs. Ey re and Lawson, IISOLCITORS. , John-street, Bedford-row. GENERAL MANAGER. Henry Lake, Esq. CES 79, Cannon -st ree t , West, OFF. ity I ; and 316, Regent-st., London. ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. es T tab h - e suet-ss of Fi re C ompan i es com bi ne d w ith Life, when lished on broad bases has been unit .rmly certain, and t he share s of all such established Companies stand st a large Premium over the original amount paid upon tnem. t h T he British N ition Fire Insurance Company Limited has certainty befo profitable , e it of securing at once a very large and Th e 44 n business. blo om . Diritish Nation Life Assurance Association" has_ . an a prra u f 4 ; 70 ,(00 a year ; it is effecting new business yielding tur n ; it r ° neoMe at the rate of upwards,ooo lipwar s ,,P eil eY-holdera amount to mo r e s than 20,00 0 0 pit_ h .a as . creasing, ' C " agents ; and its connections ale whom the Directoi It has thus nearly 30,000 persons to Limited sill the British Nation Fire Insurance Company Th e t t „„ a e the opportunity to appeal. be .epailarlah Nation Fire Insurance Company Limid will ciatien, , , s e , 'torn the " British Nation Life AssuranceA are eenseri; far'fits the whole as l Capita Ass ets, Income, a and ro ed.: but it will at l, once obtain theadvantage of that Staff r av rk i h ng Staffof the Life Company. ion value of infinitely more cies for Life ' -e eSt irnated by the fact that, althh Poli are cies for pi r difficult to obtain than Poli new b . e, scarcely ' any Life Office is transacting a larger NI Nation ~than tear, which this Staff obtains for the ' Bri- The Fire ,f3l3llo to CompanY, therefore, now brought before the "alch haveno ePeculative project ; for while Fire Companie t I vclco had Ito nude of interest to Waal to are .ye • us t-1 successful, this Institu ill le, ‘-orne immedia , y Fi e N I ratnence with a powerful connection such as no Pros „ Pang ever yet possessed. bbtateeetalies and Forms of Application for shares may be City, ela a t the offices of the Company, 79, C B annon-street, 11 -", Re - er of the Bankers or rokers. gent st T o the PI OF APPLICATION FR SHARES. -4 ret N tors of the British Nation Fire Insurance Com- Gentlpany (Limited). ett en,—llaving paid to your bankers the sum of allot fie , being the deposit payable thereon, I request you to . Im es shares in the British Nation Fire Insur ah a Company (Limited), and I hereby agree to accept such ; ,..res or any less number that may be allotted to me, sub r to the Regulations of the Company, and to pay the fur er deposit of .C 2 per share on allotment, and I request you 1 „ Place my name on the Register of Members of the Company '4 the number of shares which may be allotted to me. Name In full Address. Date Profession or Occupation BRITISH NATION FIRE INSURANCE COM MANY, Limited. n ,N OTICE.—The SHARE LIST will be CLOSED on 41.T1','SDAY NEXT, the 12th inst., for LONDON ; and on xit URsDAY, the 14th inst., for the COUNTRY. By order. HENRY LAKE, General Manager. SHORTHAND.-PITMAN'S PHONOGRA PHIC TEACHER. CA ; free by post, 7d. S HO RTHAND.-PITMAN'S PHONOGRA PHIC: MANUAL. Free by post, Is. 6d. SN O R T IT A N D.-"PITMAN'S PHONO — 1 CR A PHY forms an efficient —pr obably t,l mosT efficient 'Lowland Hill. - system of Shorthand that exists."—Sir London :P. 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Also, a Handy List, showing the nearest Post-office, Telegraphic Station, Cab Stand, Fire Engine, &c., &c., to 1,000 Principal Streets. ----- London : Saunders, Otley, and Co., 61, Brook-street, W. ; and all booksellers, newsagents, and railw,y bookstalls. BEAUTIFUL FOR EVER. MADAME RACHEL ON "FEMALE GRACE AND BEAUTY." Just published, • ABOOK OF BEAUTY. By Madame RACHEL. To be had at 47A, New Bond-street. Price 2s. 6d. T H 0 X F OR D, e, OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING, will be performed Selections from tile following Operas, viz., THE SLAVE, by Sir H. iiishop ; also, from LA FORZA. DEL DES I INO—Verdi ; by the fol lowing talented artistes.—Misses 'Russell, Townley, Fitz- Henry, VI , almsley, Tyrrell, and Ellison ; Messrs. Green, Huish, Kimberley, Stuart, &c. Solos on the Violin by VIOTTI COLLINS, the cele brated English Violinist. Flute by Drew Dean. Pianoforte, Miss Bryant. And the marvellous Instrument, the ORCHESTRAL PIANO, 'by Herr SCHALKENBACFI, the Inventor. Comedy, by UNSWORTH (" or any oilier man "), Eugene, W. Randall,W. T. Critchfield, T. Maclsg.:an, George Hutchen son, and the marvellous Gymnasts, Messrs. Berri, Leach, and Foster. THIS EVENING, will be produced, supported by the entire comany, a new and original Cantata, entitled "King Christmas." written by Litchfield Moseley, Esq., and com posed by W. Meyer Lutz, expressly for the establishment. Director, Mr. F. Jong,hmans. CANTERBURY HALL.—THE GHOST i n t h e MAGIC FOUNTAINS, surpassing any of the Trans formation Scenes cf the Season—one of the most beautiful effects ever produced. The scene, "The Tempest ;" Ariel, Miss E. Townley. The flight of Ariel throusrh the Fairy Fountains is certainly a triumph of art.—Vide Public Press. All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions of the Estab ishment as usual, including Operatic Selections, &c. • Comedy by Unsworth (the great Stump Orator), Eugene, 1 1 7: Randall, G. Hutchenson, J. Jester, T. Maclagan, &c. Admission, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, is. Open every Evening. R 0 YA L ALHAM BR A.-FRANCONI'S GRAND CIRQUE IMPERIAL, EVERY EVENING, at Half-past Seven ; Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday, at Two. "This troupe is certainly one of the best we have had in England for some years. The Cirque Imperial may safely count on a long career of prosperity in London."—The Times. MADAME TUSSAUD'S HISTORICAL GALLERY ; established 28 years at the Bazaar, Baker-street.—Great Treat for the Juveniles during the Rolidays.—The series of Models of the Kings of England, from the Conqueror to that of her present Majesty, attired in the magnificent costumes of their respective periods, is now near y complete : ant in the Chamber of Physiognomy are several new additions. Admission, s. ; extra rooms, 6d. Open from 11 till dusk, and from 7 till 10. A RGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Hay market. NOTICE. —M. JULLIEN'S PROMENADE CONCERTS will be continued at the above elegant rooms. Admission 1.. Conductor-31. JULLIEN. Solo Performers—Messrs. Mosca, Tyler, Horton, Snelling, Progratski, M'Kenney, Ar.c. Doors Open at 8, commence at half-past. Manager, M. GRENET. 29, GEORGE-STREET, HANOVER - SQUAR E. THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM . Open daily from 10 till 10. Lectures at 4 and 7 o'clock. Where may be seen the Astecs ; Bushman and Wife ; Julia Pastrami and Infant ; Eng and Shang, the Siamese Twins; and upwards ot 3,000 Models, Natural Pre parations, Art. Egyptian Mummies, unwrapped, 4,000 years old. Admission, One Shilling tor Gentlemen only). IF THIS SHOULD MEET THE E YE of an y one troubled with Wind in the Stomach, Indigestion, or Biliousness, take PAGE WOODCOCK'S WIND PILLS. Their world-wide celebrity proves them of sterling merit. Of all medicine vendors at is. lid. nd 2s. 9d. ; or free by post for 14 or 33 stamps from Page D. Woodcock, Chemist TEETH. —Mr. ESKELL'S INVENTION in the construction of ARTIFICIAL TEETH has the following advantages :—A set of teeth, of excellent work manship and mechanism, can be made and fitted with the most perfect accuracy and success, in a few hours, without pain or extraction of stumps, and to answer all the purposes of mastication and articulation. They are fitted without wires or fastenings, and adapt themselves so perfectly to the gums, that they are quite immoveable, except at the option of the wearer. Invalids or residents in the country can ad just these teeth to many changes of the mouth without the aid of a dentist. They are not so liable to injury, are always useful, and will last a lifetime. Comfort guaranteed. Trea tise explaining Mr. Eskell's Patent, &c., free for 7 stamps. Inspection of specimens andconsultations iree.-8 l ,Grosvenor- Bir street, Bond-street, W ; and at 39, Bennett's-hil, mingham. PRIZE MEDAL -INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1862. FRANCIS TUCKER & CO., Wax Chandlers, &c., &c., To the Queen and the P, ince of Wales. (Established 17?0.) The Jurors' Report on Wax and Church Candles, in 1862, testifies to -he excellence of the quallty of Messrs. Tuckers' manufacture. A distinguished Dignitary, in a letter addressed to Francis Tucker and Co., on the subject of WAX CANDLES with PLATTED WICKS, says : " I have found them fully equal to the recommendation which you gave them, and can sincerely, in my turn,r com mend them to the clergy tor the use of the altar." Finest quality, with Platted Wicks, patented.. 23. l d. per lb. Ordinary quality • • .. Od. per lb. VEGETABLE CANDLES, with a Mixture of Wax. Best quality ............Is. sd. per lb. Second quality •• •• •• .• • . is. 3d. per lb. Third quality •• ls. id. per lb. Carriage pa .d in London on Orders of Five Pounds in value. FRANCIS TUCKER AND CO., 8, South Molton-street, Grosvenor-square. Manufactory— Kensington (Established 1730). The largest Wax Candles in England for the Manufacture of Wax for the use of the Altar. LIFEBOAI' SERVICES. —During th e recent heavy gales some of the toats of the Royal Nadonal Lifeboat institution have been instrumental in rescuing the crews of the following wrecked vessels : —Sehooner Theophi lus, of Aberdeen, 5 men ; barque Tantworth, of Norway, 17 ; schooner Northern Lights, of Preston, 4 : pilot boat, of St Ives, 7 ; schooner Anion, of Workington, 4; schooner Gipsy, of Drogheda, 4 ; smack Saucy JaA, of Inverness, 1 ; barque Marietta, of Lisbon, 1 ; fishing boat, of Filey, 2 ; Tenby fishing boat, 3; and barque Providence, of Dantzic, 7. Total lives saved, 55. Th e lifeboats also assisted in brin ging. Ital into port, with the ir crews, consisting of 29 men, the b schooner Sir Colin Cam, of W, rig Camog. the echo mar lino Gut lihe a, of Palermo , and the ket p ch bell Snip, of h Amitby sterdam. Ihe lifeboats also went off in reply to signals of distress on fourteen occasions, but their servioes were not u lti ma t e ly required. The amount of reward pdd for all these services was £215. The Committee of the Institutionearnest' y AP 1 'EA L to the public for ASSISTAN,,E to enable them to m , et the con tinued heavy demands on the Society's 125 lifeblat estab lishments. Contributions are received by all the London 1 1 and country bankers ; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, En., at the Jaatitutlya, ii, Johnitreet ,Adelphi, Ludo. s' - • ~...... 41 - , ~ . Agealit 4 ..e.,...te„.2,7,, „ 'h 0 4 t 4 .4[0.441. WI •A rd? „ 4 - 7.1 „ ' ~.... „7--..... N v , --,, :. , ..s:Ait, , • C.s, •L - __ ''.. ~ t, - i '' ~ . --- Ara ,_ .., bip --- -" ~. ..0 1 t i ; i : l -IV, 44 6". 4 . 5 - . .. ,6' . 4111 / 4 9 ',.' - . -1 ,-_o' ... •:, . : - , --g) -,, ,01t ~,,,#, -Et 4 '49'14 , N. --'t -4 "0-3.‘r wi- 1 4, • - A L - 111 \ v •-'-- ' THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8, 1864. WHERE CAN WE MEET AF E'ER THE PANTOMIMES 7 My dear Fellow, Gentlemen sup at EVANS', Covent-garden. the point to be insisted upon, and this is precisely what a good system of examination tends to develope. The Arch. bishop of York said lately, and I quite agree with him, at a meeting held for this same purpose, that there is no test of knowledge like the pen. One may have " strong opinions," as the phrase goes, upon some questicin, and imagine one understands it thoroughly, but it is surprising, when one sits down to write about it, how the consciousness of imperfect or uncertain, or perhaps wholly deficient in formation comes upon one, and how much there is to be supplied of which one would never have felt the want in mere conversation. It is a commonplace to quote Lord Bacon's saying—how that " reading makes a full man, speech a ready man, and writing an exact man ;" but though a commonplace, it is one of those sayings which occur to one's mind because so exactly and universally true. Do not fancy that this question of accuracy is unimportant. I doubt if any man ever made himself eminent in any line of business L-except, perhaps, as a popular speaker or preacher—who was habitually careless in his habits of thought. (" Hear, hear," and laughter.) The habit of verifying facts belore we accept' them, with that which necessarily follows upon it, the habit of suspending our judgment where facts are not precisely known, and utterly distrusting the first vague impressions we form, is not very common even among educated classes, and upon that habit, perhaps more than we think, both of our social comfort and of our political wellbeing depends. Where every wild report finds easy belief, where people rush to conclusions from hear ing one side of a story without waiting to learn the other, where there is a general impatience to believe or disbelieve without sufficient grounds for either, there one security is wanting both against political exaggeration and against individual injustice. I look on cultivation of what I may call our "judging faculties" as one of the very first duties which civilization imposes on the members of a community, for though we may ,not tu t s, m ates' trates or politicians o r jurymen, we all have Co sit in judgment, as it were, on one another—it is the necessary condition of social life—and to weigh doubtful evidence in cases which concern ourselves. Now, that power of judgment is not born in us. It has to do, lam free to admit, with the moral as well as the intellectual nature, and depends on temperament to some extent. But it is an intellectual quality also, and as such the result of experience and mental training. The first condition is to get clearly and exactly the facts before you; the next, to use the reasoning faculties upon them. Now, it is in enabling men to do these things that school teaching is mainly useful. Whether the form adopted be mathematical—the study of figures and symbols, or the study of language—the intention is the same. Ques tions properly put will discover whether memory and atten tion have been exercised in supplying the materials for an swers, and whetter those materials have been turned to account—whether what has been read has been digested also. And here let me say that I think the duty of an exa miner is to give the least possible prominence to—he cannot exclude altogether—such questions as test the mere me chanical power of recollecting only, without any indepen dent action of the answerer's mind. (Applause.) You dont want to know what a boy has learnt by rote; you want to see what use he can make of it That test is equally applied whether a lad is set to show his knowledge of a foreign language, or to work a mathematical problem. But it is not applied when the thing he is required to do is to answer a variety of queries as to facts and dates, not always in them selves important, which may be, and often are, got up for the occasion, and forgotten directly after. (Cheers.) That kind of cramming, for it is nothing else, has no doubt the merit of saving trouble to the teachers ; but it is mental la bour and training of the lowest kind, and is more apt than anything else to create a disgust to reading in after life. (Hear.) I notice this all the more because some reference is made to the subject in the last Oxford report on these exa minations. I find the examiners say of the theological teaching, " By far the most general defect was the almost entire absence of any intelligent knowledge" of the matters which had been verbally learnt. They go on--" Words which boys use or hear every Sunday convey either no meaning to their minds or a wrong one." Of the mathe matical part they say that "it is generally sufficient in quantity, but there is a want of intelligence displayed wherever the text is reproduced verbatim," In an earlier report they speak of candidates who have " a verbal ac quaintance with the rules of grammar, but who utterly fail in their application." And they end with a sentence which conveys the whole moral of that which I have been trying to urge upon you. " More marks would be gained and the process would. be more beneficial to the candidates were they to confine their reading within narrower limits, selecting one or more of the optional subjects and learning them tho roughly, instead of endeavouring to obtain a less acquaint ance with the whole." (Hear, hear.) Now, lam glad to cite these passages, partly for their own value, partly also because they answer an objection which I have often hard —that examinations promote cramming; meaning by that word a temporary pretence of knowledge which is got up to serve a special purpose, and useless in all other respects. Not only do I believe that not to be the truth, but I believe it is the very opposite of the truth. Cramming implies just that show and parade of things superficia'ly acquired which may impose upon parents who have forgotten their own early teaching, but which will never impose on an examiner who understands his business. (Hear.) The fault or the ten dency to the fault is in the school; the detection of it is the duty of the examiner who teats the school. There is one more word I have to say on a matter connected with this. Many sensible people are afraid that by the in,- creased stimulus of a wider competition we shall tempt young boys to hurt their health by over -reading. That is a reasonable apprehension, but it admits of an answer. Overwork is seldom good work. We used to say when I was an undergraduate at Cambridge that anybody who had it in him to become a senior wrangler might become one—that is, might obtain the highest distinction in one kind which the university can give—by reading steadily six hours a day. I believe that was true, and I hold it certain that those, whether boys or men, who hurt their health by over-study are not those who labour steadily, or at a moderate pace, but those who neglect healthy exercise and care in other respects, and more especially those who. having been idlers for the greater part of their time, try and make up lost ground by a desperate push at the last. (Hear.) And now a word as to the success which these ex aminations have met with, It has been stated in the report that after the first year (1858) the number of candidates fell off, and has only just reached its original level. The juniors were 750 in 1858, 573 in 1860, and 762 in the past year. Does that imply failure ? I think not. It shows that a great many came up not in the least knowing what to expect, and having had some unpleasant experience in the first year did not care to try again. (A laugh.) Out of the first 750 only 280 passed, and no wonder that there should have been some reluctance to incur such exposure. But the effect has been good; for of the 762 who went up last year 487 have passed, being a proportion of about 64 per cent., whereas the proportion in 1858 was only 31 per cent. I take the returns of the junior candidates only in order not to multiply figures ; but the others would give a similar general result. Yt,u cannot have a better mea sure of the improvement in the act of teaching which com parisons bet ween s chool and school have th,se yearly created ; and when one considers that no class of men, however excellent, like to have their pretensions criticised and their shortcomings made public, least of all those who exercise a kind of authority on a small scale, it seems to me singular, and creditable to the schoolmasters as a body, that so little opposition has been made in any quarter to the whole scheme. I shall detain you no farther, but only men tion before I sit down that Manchester holds in these exami nations, as might be expected from the 'character of its people, a place considerably higher than the average. You sent up last year 157 candidates in all out of 1,029 from all parts of England--that is, in round numbers, more than one seventh of the whole ; and if I assume that for this pur pose Manchester represents all the neighbouring towns, with a population of perhaps a million altogether (Liverpool and Leeds being both rival centres), you will have one-seventh of the total number of students from one-twentieth of the total population. So much for the numbers examined. In point of success you stand a little, though only a little, above the average, having passed 68 per cent. as compared with a general average of 6i per cent. lam justified, there fore, in affirming that on your part a certain superiority exists. But while I say that I must add also that, as a Lancashire man, I shall not be satisfied, and I think you ought not to be satisfied, until we make it more ma , ked and more decisive. (Cheers.) It rests with you to accomplish that ; the power is there. The will lam certain is not wanting; all that is needed is to keep alive a strong and healthy public interest in the matter, and that such interest exists your presence here, the numbers that have met in this room to-day, the character of this audience, and the increasing popularity of these yearly gatherings are a suffi cient and satisfactory proof. (Loud applause.) Mr. BAZLEY, M.P., and Mr. TURNER, M P., briefly ad dressed the meeting. Mr. Pender, M.P., was also present. A vote of thanks to Lord Stanley for presiding termi nated the proceedings. s I Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. IIINAHAN'S LLBRIAVNHDIYS" v. COGNAC, This celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest FRENCH BRANDY, It i 4 Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold In Bottles, 3s. Bd,, at the Retail Homes in London ; by the Agents in the principal towns in England; or wholesale at _ _ The Duncan, 81-gun screw line-of-battle ship, of 3,716 tons, and with an engine power of 800 horses, was commis sioned yesterday at Portsmouth by Capt. Robert Gibson (1863) as the flagship of Rear-Admiral of the Red Sir James Hope, K.C.8., appointed to succeed Sir Alexander Milne, K.C.8., as Commander-in-Chief of the British squadrons on the North American and West India stations. The Duncan will make her maiden cruize under Sir Jas. Hope's flag. In her various trials under steam since she has been launched she has maintained a state of speed which for its excellence and uniformity has been unequalled by any other liner of equ , ..l power. Her first trial took place on 7th of August, 1860, with a Griffiths' screw, the wind being at a force of from 4 to 5, at a draught of water of 18ft forward, and 21ft 2in aft. On that occasion she at tained a mean rate of speed of 13 388 knots, the in dicated horse-power of the engines being 3,341'0. On the 29th April, 1861, she made a second trial at a draught of 18ft 3in forward and 21ft sin aft, but with the Griffiths' screw changed for one of three blades on the common pattern with the leading corners uncut, the weather being nearly a calm, With this screw she realised a mean speed of 13'322 knots, the engines exhibiting an indicated power of 3,1673 horse. Her third trial was at the same draught of water, and under the same conditions of weather, but with a two-bladed screw on the Maudslay-Griffiths princi ple—that is to say, with tho M audslay shifting pitch. With this she attained a mean rate of speed of 13.162 knots, the engines giving an indicated power of 3,320-3. In a subse quent trial on the 29th of the sztne month, again at the same draught of water, and with the weather nearly a calm, but with a thfea-bladed common screw with its leading corners cut, she attained a mean speed of 13.289 knots, with an in dicated engine power of 3,217-5. The engines were built by the Messrs. Penn on their horizontal trunk principle. The manning of the Duncan will absorb every seaman avail able to the authorities in the port. Thememorandum issued from the Admiralty, dated Dec. 28, 1863, relative to the introduction of distinctive colours to be worn with the gold lace stripes on the sleeves of naval officers' uniform coats, is causing some difficulty, owing to the manner in which it is worded. The opening paragraph states that "her Majesty has been pleased to sanction the introduction of distinctive colours between the gold lace stripes," &c. ; and lower down the memorandum, in award ing the respective colours to the different branches, directs them to wear alternate stripes, &c: Messrs. Galt, Gieve, and Co., naval outfitters, of Portsmouth, have submitted to the inspection of our correspondent at that port patterns of sleeves which have been altered they say in accordance with the Admiralty intentions. In these the distinctive colour is confined to between the stripes of gold lace, but the colour is shown with the curl or loop of the upper stripe. If, for instance, this is the correct reading of the circular a staff commander would receive on his coat cuffs, in addition to his three gold-lace stripes and loop two stripes of Crimean blue velvet between his three gold-laced stripes. We understand that her Majesty has expressed a strong opinion against any important change being made again in the uniform of the Royal Navy. An official announcement was issued some weeks ago at Woolwich, by order of the Board of Admiralty, that a num , bar of shipwrights were required to be entered on the tem porary list of the dockyard establishment. By reason of the demand for experienced mechanics of that class by private firms at higher wages than those given in the Royal ckyards, very few hands have applied at Woolwich in answer to the demand, and the works in hand are subject to much inconvenient delay. B, GREAT WINDMILL-STRE KT, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded "Kinahan's LL Whisky." THE WELLINGTON THREE SHILLING DINNER, consisting cf Soup, Fish, Made Dish, Joint, Sweet, &c.. is served daily from 3 to 9 p.m., and on Sunday from 5 to half-past 8 p.m. JOHN CATES, Manager. The Wellington, St. James's-street. Entrance, 160, Piccadilly. ONE THOUSAND POIL The undermentioned BANK were (with others) fraudulently obt 29th day of August, 1863, by S•gm the Jamaica Coffee-house and of W and was afterwards arrested in Hun 3 of £2OO, Nos. 85128, 85129, and NDS REWARD of ENGLAND NOTES tained in London on the iund Ditrichstein, late of northing, who absconded, agary, viz. : Dated 4th July, 1862. 84954 26 of £lOO, Nos. 42635 to 42654. and 12590 to 42696 26 of £5O, Nos. 88309, 88311, to. 88317 Nos. 89320 to 88329 . Nos. 88332 and 88339 to 88346 51 of £2O, Nos. 22451 to 21500 and 19109 „ 19th May, 1863. „ 20th April, 1863. „ 21st July, 1863. Payment of all the said notes has been stopped. Wnoever will give suoh information as shall lead to the re covery of the Bank notes above particularised shall receive a reward of £l,OOO, or a proportionate part thereof, according to the amount recovered. Intormation to be given to Messrs. ft. and S. 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Remittances. London and Westminster Bank. Post-uffice Orders payable at Camber well-park. N.B.—Betting on the Waterloo Cup. Address—BoTT and JACKSON, "Man of the World" Wine Stores, George-street, Camberwell-park, London. Her Majesty's 6 .gun paddlewhe3l sloop Hecate, Capt, George H. Richards, on surveying service in the Pacific, and ordered home in February last, made fast at the buoy at Greenhithe yesterday afternoon. A telegram was after wards received at Woolwich dockyard announcing her arrival there, and the captain's intention not to swing until this morning, when he will proceed to Woolwich to make preparations for being paid out of commission. Captain Richards entered on the command of the Hecate in Septem • ber, 1860. The freight-ship Emily, in the service of the War De partment, laden with general stores for Malta, has com menced filling in her magazines at the powder-buoy off Woolwich Arsenal with 2,000 barrels of prepared ammu nition. The iron-cased screw steamship Royal Oak, 35, Capt. F. A. Campbell, was removed yesterday (Thursday) from Hamoaze into Plymouth Sound. The Royal Oak shipped her powder in the afternoon, and will shortly be ready for sea. • The paddlewheel steamsloop Salamander, 6, Commander the Hon. Carnegie, from Sheerness and Portsmouth, arrived at Plymouth yesterday (Thursday) morning. She is bound to Cape York, Australia, and will take out marine artizaos to clear the country of trees, &c., for the purpose of founding a colony. Yesterday the mechanics at Chatham dockyard com menced cutting out the frames and making the necessary preparation for the construction of the Lord Warden target which the Lords of the Admiralty have ordered to be made at Chatham, in order that it may be subjected to a variety of tests of its strength at Shoeburyness. It will exactly re semble a section of the midships tilde of the Lord Warden above the load water-line. The construction will differ in several very important particulars from that of the Royal Oak and the other wooden armour-plated frigates already completed, the effect of which will be to render her very little inferior in strength and solidity and shot-resisting power to the most recently-constructed of our fleet of iron dads. In the squadron of armour-plated vessels recently built the 41, inch armour plates are bolted to 18 inches of teak planking, fastened to the oak timbers, which are in turn held together by the longitudinals and tie-irons which traverse the ship from stem to stern. This construction is objectionable on several grounds, not the least of which arises from the absence of a resisting medium between the teak planking and the interior of the vessel to prevent the flying off of splinters, which experience has shown are invariably more disastrous in their effects on shipboard than the passage of either a shot or shell through the ship's sides. This important fact has not been lost sight of in the construction of the Lord Warden, and it is ac cordingly intended to place an iron skin, formed of plates an inch and a half in thickness, between her timber ribs and teak planking, on which again will be placed her 59 inch and 4f-inch trmour plates. The target now in hand at ' Chatham will be put together exactly on this principle, and its trial at Shoeburyness is looked forward to with some in terest, and its form of construction is believed to combine the greatest strength with the greatest shot-resisting power. Yesterday the after portion of the keel was got in its place on the blocks beneath the shed where the Lord Warden is building, but, in consequence of the greater number of the dockyard mechanics being employed on the Achilles, only a comparatively small number are at work on the new fri gate. In a short time, however, at least 1,000 workmen will be transferred to the Lord Warden, in the completion of which every exertion will be used. Some alterations have been made in the size of the vessel since the order‘for her construction was received from the Admiralty, and the fol lowing will be her exact dimensions :—Length between perpendiculars, 280 ft ; length of keel for tonnage, 233 ft lliin ; extreme breadth, 58ft 9in ; breadth for tonnage, 57ft 2in ; breadth moulded, 56ft 4in ; depth in hold, 20ft in; burden, 4,067 26-94ths tons. By direction of the Admiralty a new iron caisson is to be fitted at the entrance to No. 2 basin at Chatham dockyard, instead of the wooden caisson recently removed, to allow of the Achilles being undocked. The new caisson is now being manufactured at the establishment of Messrs. Westwood, Baillee, and Campbell, London ; but some delay has taken place in its completion, in consequence of a misunderstand • ing having arisen in respect of the exact size it is to be made to allow of its being fitted into the granite sides of the dock. The old caisson has been floated up the harbour to the Anchor-wharf, where it is being taken to pieces by a party of workmen. In order to expedite the work connected with the prepa ration of the iron blooms for the new frigate Bellerophon, at Chatham, the mechanics employed in the smithy have commenced wol king at night. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—The Rev. W. H. Holman to be chaplain of the Colossus, vice Fox, whose period of home service has expired ; the Hon. Evelyn H. Ellis, midshipman, to the Geyser; Edmond H. C. Smith, second master, to the Dun can ; Charles W. Baillie, W. M. Savage, Bever Van Horn righ, and John M. Ross, master's assistants, to the Duncan. 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Steady perseverance must be maintained till health is restored. Lord Stanley on the Oxford Local Exami- nations. Lord Stanly, M.P., in distributing the prizes, yesterday afternoon, to the successful competitors at the Oxford local examinations at Manchester, said :—Ladies and gentlemen, —Having finished the main part of the business of the day —the distribution of prizes—you will expect me, perhaps, to address a few words to you as to the general purpose and working of these so-called local examinations. It is easy to explain wh) it has been thought expedient that examina tions of this kind should be held. Great efforts, we all know, have been and are being made for the improvement and extension of school teaching among the lower and labouring classes, Large sums are voted, private liberality is stimulated and rewarded by State grants, the clergy, the landowners, and the manufacturing employers are inces santly called upon to assist, and though the quality of the teaching given may not be all that we could desire, and though in large towns especially considerable sections of the population still remain unprovided for, yet, on the whole, comparing the present with the past, and compar ing ourselves with foreigners, we are entitled to say that England, which 30 years ago was far behind Conti nental Europe in educational matters, now holds her own with any country in the world. (Cheers.) For the higher and wealthier classes, again, the great public schools and the old collegiate foundations of the country supply educa tion of a suitable character. Whether these means are taken advantage of to the utmost is another matter ; the Public Schools Commission, when it comes to report, will tell us something about that ; but at any rate, if anything is amiss those classes have the remedy in their own hands. (Hear.) But between the highest and the lowest, between those who send their sons to Eton, to Harrow, or to Rugby, and those whose children attend the village school, there is a class numerically far larger than the highest, and both politically and socially not less important than the labouring classes. The want of good schools for the sons of farmers, of yeomen, of tradesmen, of clerks, of men having incomes from £l5O to £5OO a year—though this distinction is necessarily both imperfect and inaccurate—the want, in short, of what are known as good middle-class schools is an evil which has been long understood and felt, though less felt perhaps than it ought to have been by those whom it chiefly affects With the exception of a few grammar schools here and there the business has been left to private enterprise. And there could be nothing better if only the buyer were always qua lified to judge of the article in which he invests, but that is not the case. Many fathers have not the leisure or the will to investigate very carefully the qualifications of the school master. Those who have made their own way in the world, and happily they are a class more numerous in England than in any other country, except perhaps the colonies — naturally wish their children to have a better education than they had themselves. And they are willing to give a good plies, but they are liable to be duped by any confi dent pretender, and they went some test by which to know a good school from a bad one. That test is supplied by r hese examinations. I do not hesitate to say that during the six years of their existence they have done more to expose bad schools and to bring 'good ones into notice than any other machinery that could be devised for the purpose—(cheers)—for they have put not the lads but their masters upon their trial, and it is not easy to see in our state of society what other agency could have accom plished so much. Government inspection is very well for schools that get help from the State, and great national foundations, such as the universities and public schools, may from time to time be subjected to the supervision— cautiously and monerately exercised—of Parliament or of the Executive, but we should never endure in England to have Government interfering with private teaching estab- lishments, and I may say for one that we ought not to en dure it. (Hear.) The plan that has been adopted is open to no such objection. It is perfectly voluntary. No school need send any candidates unless the masters choose, It implies no independence, and it leaves the teaching abso lutely free. It simply marks out for honour and distinction those schools in which the most accurate and effective teaching is given ; for I believe it will be found that in this as in all such trials, where they are properly managed, suc cess depends far less on the amount which is supposed to be known than on the thoroughness of the knowledge attained. (Cheers.) It is in that respect that our University system is thoroughly sound and good. There will always be dis putes as to what are the fittest subjects for boys and young men to study—for the field is vast, time is short, and life is busy; but I think there can be no dispute as to the sound ness of the rule which every Oxford or Cambridge exami ner lays down—to take no account of, to ignore and pawl over altogether any answer which is not accurate and pre cise as far as it goes. That is, I think, the very best part of mental training that University men get in early life. To know what it is we know, and where our knowledge ends—!o use the plainest and most simple English words that will convey the meaning, neither more nor less—to avoid vague general terms, which carry with them no deft• nite idea, but only sound well, and remind one of what is called " fine writing"—these are the marks by which we in.. stinctively know an educated from a half-edueated man, whether in his writing or in his speech. And why ? Because these are the signs of a man having mastered his subject,of his having trained himself to think and to express his thoughts. (Cheers) And when a man has done that, he is sure to be worth hearing. The misfortune is that we so often come across people who can find words about anything and everything—words which in the mouths of those from whom they picked them up had a very real and definite sig nificance, tut which are repeated with only a half under standing of what they imply. (Hear.) I think that habit of talking and thinking at second hand is one which our customs in the present day necessarily encourage. Nobody doubts that there is a vast amount of mental activity in English society ; everything is written about, everything is discussed, conversation and reading spread themselves over a range of topics which would have utterly astonished and perplexed our forefathers. The first-class newspaper alone are probably read collectively by more than half a mil lion persons—l speak of those only who read them habitually and with understanding. Ido not say that such a state of things is unfavourable to origin it thought. Original thinkers are rare in every time, and they can take care of themselves. However thick the crowd may be, there is always room for those who can pass over other• men's heads. And Ido not complain of the great mass of half-knowledge, and superfi cial knowledge,for that is better than mere lethergy and stag nation. But undoubtedly our intellectual dangers in the pre sent day lie not on the side of a culture too narrow and exclu sive, as formerly, but rather on that of spreading our atten tion over 100 subjects instead of concentrating it upon a few. Perhaps you will think that in saying this 1 am forgetting the question of schools; but I advert to it because it is a part of my case. As the boy is so is the man. Accuracy and thoroughness rather than variety and superficiality is THE ARMY. The Marquis of B. artingt on, M.P., and Sir Edward Lugard, Under-Secretaries of State for War, Capt. Galton, A ssistant-Under- Secretary ; Brigadier- General St. George, R.A., C. 8., Director of Ordnance, and Mr. Whiffen, Assistant to the Accountant-General, yesterday continued their official inspection of the mnaufacturing branches of Woolwich Arsenal in order to prepare the returns for the Financial Committee. They were engaged the whole of the day in the inspection of the various factories of the Royal carriage department, in which they were assisted by Lieut.- Col. Clerk and Lieut.-Col, Shaw, R.A., Superintendent and Assistant -Superintendent of the department and their sub ordinate officers. The whole of the stores and army equip ments, in charge of Capt. Gordon, C. 8., principal military storekeeper of the Arsenal, as well as the Royab gun faoto• ries, were inspected on two former visits. T H E SWANS IN THE TUILERI ES.—Much difficulty was experienced at the commencement of the frost in rescu ing from the basin in the Tuileries the two swans which are usually seen there. Tieing imprisoned by the ice, they had retired to a small circle of water which remained unfrozen around the central fountain. PRICE .4d. STAMPED ....sd. The National Shakspere Committee. The following report of the National Shakspere Committee was read at the meeting held at the office of the Society of Arts on Monday In the early part of last year it had become evident that a great many persons desired to mark, by some national act, the completion of 300 years from the date of Shakspere's birth. A Shakapere committee, which had been formed in connection with an alit rapt to increase the fund for pur chasing New Place, discussed the subject early in May. A number of gentlemen meeting at St. John's-gate had formed a provisional committee, of which they offered the presi dency to Mr. Dickens. Another committee, with the name of Mr. Macready as president, was announced in the public prints. Some zealous friends of the Dramatic College had put themselves in communicationwith the Duke of Devon shire. The Dramatic Authors' Society were discussing the line of action which it wou:d become them to take. There were some other centres of honourable activity in the com mon cause. These several bodies proposed to celebrate the national fact in the national capital ; two of them at least proposed to do so by erecting a statue. While these measures were being taken, without much concert, in London, a meeting was convened in Stratford (May 28), Lord Leigh, Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire, presiding, to consider what should be done. Among other things, a statue was suggested. Sir Robert Hamilton, chairman of the local committee, urged that it might be proper to have a statue in London, whet e he told the meet ing it was intended to erect one, but was not proper in Stratford, which had the poet's birthplace, his garden, and his tomb. The Mayor of Stratford spokq against a statue, and Lord Leigh voted against it, The proposal was rejected by a formal vote. The Shakspere- Committee, 'which had been formed to increase the fund for purchasing New Place, agreeing with the vote of that Stratford meeting, and with thefexpress desire of all the London committees, that a national monu ment should be erected in the metropolis, convened a meet ing at the apartments of the Royal Society of Literature. The meeting was held on the 22d of June, the Duke of Man chester in the chair, when resolutions were passed to the following effect:—(l.) That the 300th birthday of the poet should be celebrated by laying the first stone of a monument in a conspicuous part of London ; (2) That, to be worthy of Shakapere and of the country, this celebration should be conducted under the sanction of her Majesty and the presi dency of the Prince of Wales, with the aid of all classes of the poet's countrymen and admirers; (3) That the existing committee, consisting of the Dukes of Devonshire, Man chester, and Newcastle, a dozen earls and barons, two bishops, two judges, 12 members of the House of Commons, and 3G other gentlemen, including the Lord Mayor of Lon don and the Mayor of Stratford, should invite the concur rence of other bodies, and of eminent individuals, in carry ing out the common wish. Sir Robert Hamilton, then and now chairman of the Stratford Committee, proposed the second of these resolutions. The Stratford Committee had decided against a statue; and their chairman assisted in founding the National Shakapere Committee, the object of which was to erect one in London. This statement of facts is sufficient to show that no feeling of hostility to Stratford presided over the organisation of the National Committee. Those who founded the National Committee had been pre viously engaged in raising a fund to complete the purchase of New Place, and make that property over to the town. Their goodwill to Stratford can therefore admit of no doubt. Some of them, while pursuing the more important national object, have also given to Stratford their names, their money, and their time. Indeed, the president, the chairmen, and four or five vice-presidents of the local body are all prominent officers and members of the National Committee. The committee, founded at Midsummer, has drawn to II common centre all the active promoters of a celebration in London, and has given the signal for many other towns, at home and in the colonies, to act. A deputation from the Ur ban Club and from the Dramatic Authors' Society offered to coalesce, and their offers have been accepted. The eminent persons who had been named as presidents of other associ ations—Mr Dickens, Lord Carlisle, and Mr Macready— have been invited to act as vice-presidents, an invitation which in every case has been courteously accepted. All separate schemes having thus been placed under the control of a single body, the committee has grown into such magni. tude and variety that it would probably be right to describe it even now as in some degree a representation of English thought. At this moment the National Shakspere Ccm mittee consists of about 400 persons, each more or less eminent in his own walk of life. Every great branch of our many-sided society has a delegate at the board. The Church is represented by the Archbishops of Canter , bury, York, and Dublin, by the Bishops of London, Wor exuder and St. David's, by the Deans of Canterbury, Westminster, St. Paul's, and Chichester, and by many distinguished clergymen. Law is represented by Lord Chief Baron Pollock and Lord Justice Knight Bruce, by the Queen's Advocate, her Majesty's Attorney general, the Chief Justice of Guiana, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Sir Hugh M. Cairns, Mr. Serjeant Parry, and many eminent barristers. The universities are represented by the Duke of Devon shire, Lord Brougham, the Matter of Trinity, Professor Goldwin Smitb, and the Rev W. G. Clark. Government is represented by the Duke of Newcastle, Earl Granville, Earl Russell, and the Right Ron. William Cowper. The House of Lords is represented, independently of the peers already named, by the Dukes of Manchester and Cleve land, the Marquis Townshend, the Earl of Shrewsbury, Clarendon, Howe, Sandwich, and Dunraven, Viscounts Eversley and Stratford de Radcliffe, and by Lord do Lisle and Dudley, Londesborough, Houghton, and Vernon. The nonofficial members of the House of Commons are represented by Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord John Manners, the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, Sir Joseph Paxton, Mr Alderman Silomons, Colonel Sykes, and Messrs. Bazley, Ewart, Gosehen, Halibuiton, Holford, Newdegate, Rose, Scholefield, Sheridan, Taylor, Tite, and Wynne. The Nonconformist clergy are represented by the Rev Principal of the Regent's-park College, the Rev Principal of Cheshunt College, the Revs Henry Allon, Thomas Ave ling, Wm. Brock, Baldwin Brown, G. B. Bubier, John Stoughton, and Dr Robert Vaughan. The Jews are represented by the Chief Rabbi, Dr Adler. . • Ireland is represented by the Lord Lieutenant, the Arch bishop of Dublin, the Dean of the Royal Chapel, Lord Tal bot of Ma'abide, and the President of the Royal Irish Academy. Scotland is represented by the Chancellor of the Univer sity of Edinburgh, Dean Ramsay, Lord Noting, the Prin cipal of the University of Edinburgh, and the Sheriff of Mid lo t hien . General literature and the press may be said to be repre sented, amongst others, by the President of the Society of Antiquaries, the President of the Statistical Society, the President of the Numismatic Society, Mr Charles Dickans, vice-president ; the Poet- Laureate, vice-president ; Lord Houghton, Lord Lindsay, Sir Frederic Madden, Sir James Prior, Professor Brewer, Professor Masson, Dr Doran; Messrs William Allingham, Mathew Arnold, G, P. Bacon, G.:L. Banks, H. N. Barnett, R, Bell, Algernon Borthwick, ()harks Kent, Shirley Brooks, Chevalier de Chatelain, W. H. Collingridge, D. Costello, E. Dicey, J. H. Fris well, C. W. Goodwin, James Grant, T. C. Grattan, C. L. Gruneisen, S. C. Hall, T. D. Hardy, J. A. Heraud, T. Hood, J. Hollingshed, Thornton Hunt, B. Jerrold, J. W. Kaye, C. L. Kenney, J. Knight, F. Lawrence, G. C. Leighton, Mark Lemon, E. Levy, J. Lowe, S. Lucas, C. Mackay, Theodore Martin, Herman Merivale, H. Morley, H. Ottley, Henry Reeve, J. F. Robertson, W. H. Russell, G. A. Sala, W. J. Thome, H, Vizetelly, J. Walter, W. 11. Willa, Thomas Wright, and Edmund Yates. Shaksperian literature is represented by the Rev Alex. Dyce, Rev W. G. Clark, Rev Wm. Harness, Professor Craik, Messrs Cowden Clatko, Payne Collier, and Charles Knight, Dramatic literature is represented by Sir E. B. Lytton, Bart., Messrs Bayle Bernard, E. L. Blanchard, Leicester Buckingham, F. C. Burnand, 11, J. Byron, Stirling Coyne, Andrew Halliday, George Lovell, Westland Marston. JohnOxenford, J. R. Planche, Palgrave Simpson, and the Bev J. C. Bellew. Science is represented by the president of the Royal So ciety, Sir David Brewster, Professor Owen, Professor Thomson, Dr Angus Smith, Dr Charles Beke; Messrs R. Chambers, Warren de la Rue, and George Godwin. Art is represented by the president of the Royal Aca demy, the president of the Society of British Artists, the president of the Architectural Museum; Messrs Richard Ansdell, E. H. Baily, E. W. Cooke, George Cruikshank, Joseph Durham, Alfred Elmore, Thomas Fead, J. H. Foley, W. E. Frost, S. A. Hart, John Leighton, Daniel Maclise, W. Calder Marshall, David Roberts, Clarkson Stanfield, G. M. Ward, and Professor \Vestmacott. Music is represented by Sir Fred. G. Ouseley, Oxford ; Dr E. G. Monk, York; Professor Sterndale Bennett, Mr M. W. Balfo, M. Jules Benedict, Mr J. W. Davison, M. Otto Goldschmidt, Messrs 0, A. Macfarren. G. W. Martin, Sims Reeves, W. Vincent Wallace, and Dr Rimbault. Dramatic art is represented by Messrs James Anderson, J. B. Buckstone, William Creswick, Edmund Falconer, Charles Pechter, Charles Kean, W. C. Macready, Henry Marston, Samuel Phelps, J. L. Toole, George Vining, Ben jamin Webster, and Alfred Wigan. The City of London is, for the moment, represented by . _ _ the Lord Mayor, Mr Alderman Rose (late Lord Mayor), Mr Alderman Bexley, Mr Alderman Salomons, Messrs W. F. Cosens, G. R. Goschen, M.P., Henry Huth, Henry Juntison, E. H. Lawrence (Stock Exchange), W. Leaf, and George Peabody. The organisation is only just commencing in the country; but the following cities and towns are already represented on the committee :—Arundel, by the 'Mayor. Belfast, by Proiesser Craik, Birmingham, by Mr. Wm. Scholefleld, M.P., Mr T. Lloyd, ALP., and Mr George Dawson, M,A. N tiIiAPER !A I 1W,04-1.- qc , 0;4? Blackburn, by Mr W. Harrison, F.S.A. I the Dean, Cheshunt, by the Rev. H. R. ReynO .. Chichester, by the Dean and the Mayor. Darlitlikon, Mr H. K. Spark. Derby, by Mr Lewelyn Jewitt, F.S.A. Dublin (as distinct from Ireland generally), by the Revs Dr Lloyd, Dr Butcher, Dr Reeves, Professsr Florence D. Macarthy, and Messrs Samuel Ferguson and E. D. Starkey. Dulwich, by the Rev Dr Carver, Master of the College. Durham, by the Mayor and the Recorder. Edinburgh, by the Lord Provost, Sir David Brewster, and Mr James Todd. Glasgow, by the Lord Provost, Rev James Craik, Prof Nichol, Messrs G. 11. 8011, William Ruing, G. H. B. Macleod, Davit Macrae, and A. J. Symington. Greenock, by Mr A. P. Paton. Havering, by Mr C. P. Mathews. Horsemonden, by the Rev Sir W. M. J. Smith-Marriott, Bart. Kendal, by the Mayor. Lewes, by Messrs W. 11. Blaauw and George P. Bacon. Liverpool, by the Rev Dr A, Hume, the Rev Hugh Stowell Brown, Messrs James Spence, and H. A. Bright. Manchester, by Mr Thomas Bazley, M.P , the Rev Thomas Corser, Prof Green w0.),1 principal of Owen's College, Messrs John Harland, F.S.A., and Charles Swain. Newcastle, by Mr J. Cowen, jun. Northampton, by the Mayor. Oxford City, by Mr Alder man Spiers. Paisley, by Mr James Lamb. St. Leonardo, by the Rev W. W. Hume. Stratford-on-Avon, by Sir Robert Hamilton, Bart., and Mr C. 11. Bracebridge. Up minster, by the Rev P. M. Holden, Worcester, by the Bishop. York, by the Archbishop, Dr Monk, and Mr Robert Davies, F.S.A. General society may, perhaps, be conailered as being in some degree represented at the board by—amongst many others—Sir C. R. Boughton, Bart., Ernest de Bunsen, Es% General Sir John F. Burgoyne, Bart., Lieutenant-Colonel Burns, Mr Bond Cabbell, the Rev J. E. Cox, M.A., Sir Charles Darling (Governor of Jataaica), Colonel De Bathe, Sir C. W. Dilke, Bart., Governor Dundas (Prince Edward Island), Sir Culling Eardley, Bart., Professor Eastwick, Sir Arthur Elton, Bart., Mr F. J. Furnivall, Mr F. W. Gibbs, C. 8., Colonel Hill (Governor of Antigua), Sir Row land Hill, K.C.8., Mr J. Winter Jones, Sir Richard C. Kirby, C. 8., General Knollys, Capt. Wallingford Kn.flys, Mr Frederick Locker, Sir Richard G. Macdonnel, C. 8., Sir Charles Nicholson, Bart., Mr Frederic Ouvry (Treasurer to the Society of Antiquaries), Mr Winwoed Reads, Sir Cusack Roney, Governor "Walker of Barbadoes, Dr Forbes Winslow, Sir Lascelles Wrazall, Bart„ and Dr H. G. Wright. The eminent men of foreign countries are, as a mere be, ginning, represented in the persons of M. Hans Christian Andersen, the Marquis d'Azeglio, M. Louis Blanc, Herr Albert Cohn, Professor Dingelstedt, Professor Delius,Pro fessor Elze, M. Louis Gallait, M. Guizot, Professor Tycho Mommsen, Count de Montalembert, and Professor Ulrici. It should be added that no distinguished foreigners have yet been formally invited ; those who have joined have done so through their personal connection with members of this committee. In connection with this list of names, it is impossible not to express the profound regret which every one must feel at the sudden removal from among us of a man of genius, about whose form of invitation there was a passing diffe rence of opinion. His claims to a place in the committee had been expressed in a formal vote and in a special invita tion. Of his sympathy, and of his co-operation, had ho been spared to us, no sort of doubt can be entertained. From managers of theatres and dramatic artists many offers of service have been received. Among others, Mr. Gye has offered Covent-garden for a morning performance; Mr. Falconer has proposed to give the proceeds of an even ing at Drury-lane ; Mr. Webster has proposed to give an evening at the Adelphi ; Mr. Buckstone has offered an evening at the Haymarket; and Mr. G. Vining, one at the Princess's. It may be expected that a performance in aid of the fund will be given by every manager of the London theatres. Miss HelenFaucit, Miss Glyn, and Mrs. Charles Young have placed their eminent talents at the services of the cause. Applications having been made to the committee by artists and manufacturers for leave to publish busts,medals, and other commemorative works under its express sanction powers have been granted to consider such offers—and, where the works were found to be creditable of their kind, and the proprietor was desirous of making a suitable contribution to the fund, to give such express sanction. One such proposition has been accepted —an offer on the part of Messrs, Howell and James to subscribe £5O to the fund, and to publish a small bust of Shakspere, modelled by Mr. Felix Miller, of the Government School of Art. Other proposals of the same kind are under consideration. The members appointed as a site committee, namely, the Duke of Manchester, the Right Hon. William Cowper, her Majesty's Attorney-General, Sir Joseph Paxton, M.P., Mr. William Tite, M.P., and Mr. G. R. Goschen, M.P., have accepted the trust, with the one exception of Mr. Goschen. whose place has been supplied by th e Ri g h t H on. the Lord Mayor. Some suggestions as to the best site have already been sent in, and the committee will be glad to receive and consider many more. W. HEPWORTH DIXON, 1 Gen. 3, 0. HALLIWELL, i Sees. THE DISTRESS IN BLACKBURN, From the return sissued relating to the relief of the desti tute of this town last week it is gratifying to observe a de creased expenditure, as compared with the previous week, of £24 12s Bd. In all the relief and labour committees ex pended £328 12s 4d, and the Board of Guardians £223 14s 8d last week, making a total of £552 17s against £577 Bcl in the preceding week. The guardians extended their aid to 4,277 persons in the Blackburn relief district, to 901 in the Oswaldtwistle district, and to 639 in the Darwen. district. Their aggregate expenditure in relief was £317 4s 11d. The £328 12s 4d expended by the labour and relief committees included the wages paid to 621 unskilled ope ratives employed at outdoor work. About 500 being en gaged wader the Public Works Act, a large proportion of the expenditure will be reimbursed from the con tracts. It also included the grants of general relief to 617 persons not otherwise provided for, and the earnings by piece of 62 needlewomen. Since the 11th of July last the sewing classes have made up for distribution by the clothing committee 22,868 articles, at a cost for manufacture of £621 7s 11d. From the 7th of October to the 7th No vember the classes were under the superintendence of Mrs. J. G. Potter, of Mytton-hall. In that period the class made up 3,123 articles, at a cost of £lOl 13s sd. During the past 12 months it has frequently happened that manufacturers in the townships surrounding Blackburn have been at full work, or nearly so, and required many extra operatives to keep their machinery in operation, few operatives being able to manage more than two looms, in place of three or four. This condition of things has tended much to the relief of Blackburn. During the past fortnight several mills in this town have ceased production, and thrown 3,000 operatives out of work, while in the same period at Darwen several mills and weaving sheds have been recommenced, after a stoppage of nearly two years. Other mills and weaving sheds have been meanwhile extended, and in several in stances new machinery has supplied the place of old. A want of operatives has been already felt in Darwen, but not to any serious extent, and the question now evolving in the minds of many practical men in the district is how, in the Event of an early revival of trade, a sufficiency of operatives can be got to meet the demand. Mr. James Pilkington, M.P. for Blackburn, a large cotton spinner, referred to this subject at a congregational meeting over which he presided, last Friday night, in the following terms :—" It is three years since I occupied the position I find myself in to-night, and in that period events of the greatest importance have taken place affecting the trade and prosperity of Lancashire. The depression has been brought about through the war now raging in America, and through our dependence on the United States for a supply of cotton. It is cheering to think that most parties consider the worst is past, and that there is hope of an early renewed trade, not subjected to that chance and danger, as when there is only one source of supply for the raw material. Ido think that before long there will be a revival of trade, and such a revival as the raw material will find it difficult to keep going. I have no wish to set up as a prophet ; but I speak as I believe, and you can judge in the future of the correctness or incorrect ness of my opinion. There is another help to success which will be wanted with the renewal of good trade, and that will he hands, of whom there will be a scarcity, and if trade re vives in the manner I expect we shall be compelled to im port hands to do the work that will be required. There is one important and material point in which a pleasurable disappointment has been felt, and that is the conduct of the people during the time of the severs calamity through which we have passed. It was feared when work failed, and the great masses of the people were compelled to depend upon charity, that scenes would take place that would make Lancashire so that no respectable person could live in it; but the spirit in which the operatives have bore their troubles has gained for them the respect of the nation and the world." (Loud applause.) The question will prove itself a very difficult one. It is calculated that from Black burn alone no fewer than 4,000 factory operatives have migrated to other places to maintain themselves and families rather than to live upon eleemosynary aid. Of this number at least 250 have emigrated to America and Australia. Many of the most experienced and skilled workers are to be numbered with the latter, the idle and the worthless not having possessed the means nor been deemed fit subjects to receive the aid of the Emigration Committee to emigrate. lionoLooicAn SCIENCE.—" Here are arranged a fine selection of watches manufactured by him on the latest and moat approved principles of horolog,rical science."—Daily News, July 1, 1862 . Chronometer, duplex, lever, horizontal. repeaters, centre seconds, keyless, split seconds, and every. description of watch, adapted to all climates. Benson's il lustrated pamphlet on watches (free for two stamps) contains a short histor) Of watchmaking, with prices, from 3 to 200 guineas each. It acts as a guide in the purchase of a watch, and enables those who live in any part of the world to select a watch, and have it sent safe by post. Prize medal and honourable mention, classes 33 and 1 5 . J. W . Benson, 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London. Established 1749. Watch and clock maker by special warrant of appointment to n.IL 11. the Prince of Wales. THE BISHOPRIC OF THE ORANGE RIVER. — Letters received from Dr. Twells, some time ago consecrated to the Bishopric of the Orange Riv er territory, give a very favourable accou nt of his distant diocese. The bishop has assigned spheres of duty to the three clergymen who went out with him, and he states that ho requires forthwith two gentlemen in priest's orders, to whom sti pends of between £2OO and £3OO a year would be given, together with candidates for the ministry of the Church. , Att 0 - cif ° ° bl 6 9 ./ Vi ,tf tv` " •